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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the crops that are considered women's crops by the people of Umuofia?
(a) Yams, kola nuts, greens
(b) Gourds, bananas, oil bean
(c) Coco-yams, beans, cassava
(d) Palms, bitter-leaf, foo foo

2. Why is the big, ancient silk-cotton tree in the playground considered sacred?
(a) The tree holds all the spirits of the men who died in wars since the beginning of time.
(b) The spirits of good children waiting to be born live in the tree.
(c) The tree holds the spirits of all the ancestors of the clan.
(d) The tree is believed to have been the first tree in existence.

3. Why does Okoye need to collect a past debt from Unkona?
(a) Okoye needs money to help him overcome his failures.
(b) To help pay for the expensive Idemili title ceremony.
(c) To buy a new ogene, the musical instrument Okoye played.
(d) To buy yams for his three wives.

4. How is the weather during the first growing season that Okonkwo starts share-cropping for Nwakibie?
(a) The beginning of the season is poor weather for growing yams, but the second planting of the season grows huge yams, sweet and plump.
(b) Some good days, and some bad: the yams grow, but not to their potential. Some days were too hot and some rains too severe.
(c) The best growing weather ever: yams flourish with the nightly rains and sunny days.
(d) The worst in memory: late rains and scorching sun kill the yams, then torrential downpours wash the seeds away.

5. What are the traditional events when night falls and it is time to end Obierika's daughter's uri?
(a) The leftover wine is divided into flasks for the guests to take home.
(b) The elders sit in a circle while singers sing each man's praise. Then the guest's rise to go and the bride is to leave with them for seven weeks.
(c) The singers sing a song of praise to Obierika for such a wonderful celebration.
(d) The women gather all the pots, filling them with leftover food and give each guest a pot to take home.

6. What are the women's duties after the yams are planted?
(a) They make bamboo woven hats for the farmers working in the hot sun.
(b) They plant maize, melons, and beans between the mounds. They also weeded the farm three times per planting season.
(c) They make meals for the men working in the fields.
(d) They plant kola nuts between the yams, and weed the yams every day.

7. Why is Okonkwo's twelve-year-old son, Nwoye, causing him great anxiety?
(a) Okonkwo is jealous of his son's growing strength.
(b) Nwoye is a wild, unruly boy.
(c) Okonkwo believes his son to be lazy.
(d) Nwoye complains about having to work in the fields from dawn to dusk.

8. Why doesn't Okonkwo have any patience with his father?
(a) Unkona spoils his wife and children, providing them with too much food and money.
(b) Unkona is overly ambitious and driven to earn the highest titles in the land.
(c) Unkona is a great warrior who is always away at war.
(d) Unoka is lazy, a debtor, and a failure.

9. Why does Okonkwo beat his second wife, Ojiugo, during the sacred Week of Peace?
(a) She is at a friend's house and does not prepare Okonkwo's afternoon meal.
(b) She is caught with another man.
(c) She cooks a meal that Okonkwo does not like.
(d) She disagrees with what Okonkwo has to say.

10. What is the significance of the beating of drums in the village playground, the ilo, where all the great ceremonies and dances of the village take place?
(a) The beating drums announce that there is a winner in the wrestling match.
(b) The beating of the drums means that the wrestling match will begin at noon.
(c) The drums beat as each wrestler is thrown to the ground.
(d) The drums play the wrestling dance in preparation for the wrestling match at sundown.

11. Where does Chielo bring Ezinma?
(a) To the yam fields
(b) To the village of Umuachi, then turns around and continues back to the hills of Agbala
(c) To where dead children are buried
(d) Deep into the forest

12. Which men fight in the final wrestling match of the day?
(a) The wealthiest men from each of the nine villages.
(b) Men elected in each of the nine villages.
(c) Men chosen by the elders from each of the nine villages.
(d) The leaders of the teams are made up of the best wrestlers in the nine villages.

13. What is the first trial's dispute set before Evil Forest and the egwugwu?
(a) The case of one man stealing yams from the barn of another.
(b) The case of a man being murdered and left by the side of the road by his brother.
(c) The case of a mother beating her child to death.
(d) The case of Mgbafo running away from her husband, Uzowulu, because he beat her and caused her to miscarry. Mgbafo's relatives refuse to give him back the bride-price because he beats her.

14. One night, the storytelling of Okonkwo 's wives and children stops because the priestess, Chielo is shouting in a high-pitched voice. What does she tell Okonkwo?
(a) That Agbala is putting a curse on Okonkwo's house
(b) That Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves wants to see Ezinma
(c) That Agbala wants to see all Okonkwo's wives
(d) That Agbala needs to talk to Okonkwo

15. What does every man and his family do after the Week of Peace?
(a) Cuts bush to make new farms, burns the bush and flies kites over the burning fields.
(b) Has a feast to celebrate with each other.
(c) Gathers in the marketplace to visit with neighbors.
(d) Plays flutes, dances and sings before planting the crops.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who appears in front of Ekwefi as she waits tearfully outside Agbala's cave?

2. What is the one passion that rules Okonkwo's life?

3. How does Ikemenfuna feel after three weeks of illness?

4. Okonkwo does not fear war. In the last war he fought, he brought home a souvenir which he drank palm-wine out of. What is this souvenir?

5. What is the festival that gives thanks to Ani, the earth goddess and source of fertility?

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